Julia Barrow (GBR)

Professor Julia Barrow is the Director of the Institute for Medieval Studies / Professor in Medieval Studies of University of Leeds: 

"I studied at St Andrews University (MA in Mediaeval History, 1978) and then at Oxford (D.Phil. 1983); the subject of my doctoral thesis was the bishops of Hereford and their acta (charters) 1163-1219. After several temporary positions, which included a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at Birmingham 1986-9 and a year spent working for the Victoria County History of Cheshire 1989-90, I was appointed to a lectureship at the University of Nottingham and taught there until 2012."